The good news is we have all the data from the last few weeks.... and I've just backed everything up before I start tweaking stuff

Seems that early on the 23rd July (my birthday!) a script that processes the days data ran out of memory and left the database in a partially locked state (this is by careful design!).

I've unlocked the database and increased the memory available to the script (by a factor of 8) as well as reducing the memory the script requires, and going to rerun it now... keep your fingers crossed for the next few hours

Well I checked at 4:30am, 6:30am etc to make sure everything was ok, and its still processing the back log of data now at 9:55.

I think its about 60% done, which means there is another 6 or 7 hours to go... which means I'm got going hang around waiting for it, but go to work

Unfortunately (assuming the processing completes without falling over again) there's some stuff I have to do before the bee is back online, which means when I get back from work, so its not going to be up until midnight at the earliest.

Sorry for the delay, but I want to get this sorted before I go on hols

Whilst waiting for stuff to finish, I've done a minor update to the website..

On the the front page (and other pages too) there's a small section titled Status. Hopefully this should alert us (and you) to whether there are any known issues... like the one we are currently experiencing.

Just got to* optimise/check the mysql tables after doing all those updates* restore some scripts* do a test run of the cron process that backs up the database / processes the data to make sure everything is ok* enable the bee again